"A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. Nearly everything that encloses space on …"

"The great importance of Wilbury House [in Wiltshire] lies less in its appearance now than in its appearance as it was…"

"Pevsner's career is a prism through which to view the world of art history as it developed in England in the middle o…"

"Pevsner was very much the German bourgeois Jew - a certain amount of austerity and not a lot of giggles."

"I have more confidence in the charity which begins in the home and diverges into a large humanity, than in the worldw…"

"As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."

"A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense."

"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to…"

"Piety in art—poetry in art—Puseyism in art—let us be careful how we confound them."

"He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not fo…"